In august 2013 I broke up with my girlfriend, this is quite a rude start to explain a project, but it bred so many things.

 

This is actually quite simple to say, it's a simple thing to do, just say that you're done, you don't want to live anymore with a person you love since years, a person you obviously still love but sometimes love is not enough.

 

I never felt that bad about something I did to someone, so I've been thinking alot about everything, about me, about what happened, what we did to each other, and in may 2014 I decided to try to talk to her again but it was too late, because she was about to move out in another country, with someone else, she was about to move on.

 

So I told myself that I had to move on aswell and stop living on my regret and stay stuck in my own present because of what I did in the past. And since I've been playing music during years, I've been making music videos on YouTube since a long time aswell, I finally decided to produce my own album, by myself, with the music recording and mixing knowledge I learnt during these last years.

 

I also started to compose musics, anything that  could go around in my head, I just wanted things to get spontaneous to me, and not too much sophisticated. So after a few weeks I had about 12 songs and I still wanted something simple and that still meant something in the end, so I decided to use an EP format (for those who're not familiar to it, it's an album format between the single with about 2 songs and the classical album format with about 10 songs).

 

In the end I had 5 songs I knew I really wanted to work on a tell a story with...

 

I changed the 2 names from the 2 first songs in this picture in the final project, actually the first song was meant to be another song that it is in the final project aswell.

 

Basically the first song is about not thinking and just enjoy the moment, it's sort of optimistic, perhaps utopian, but if you don't believe in it, how could it happen?

Somewhere, which has been finally called Spacetime concerns what can happens in a tiny piece of life, for you and for many other people in many places, and sometimes how things can get together by itself.

Monomania is more about getting focused on something, someone, an obsession that can brings you to many sort of feelings.

Coexist is an older song I composed when I still was with her, it's obviously about living with someone, evolving with the person you love, changing and trying to deal with it.

For Idyll I wanted something pure and simple, it can means something that starts as something that ends, actually it can be both, an end release something new, a new start, a new era, a new life.

 

To keep the simplicity of the music I also want a simple cover for my album, the idea of these stripes was one of my first and I decided to deal with it. To me it kind of means how we tend to meet each other, and how some other events are never ment to be.

Days are going and going on and sometimes we can just observe people around us without even trying to know more about this person, or sometimes it's just something natural.

Nowadays social relations have been a bit compromised by social networks, but to me it has tohing to do with social networks themselves but more about how people use them.

For those who are interested, my album is available on BandCamp :